Within a network of machines, you may wish to use some of the WACS tool sets from another machine on the network. In order to use some of the facilities, you will need to make sure that the database server will allow network connections, that a copy of the WACS configuration file is available to the programs you're trying to use on that other machine and that the database client side code has been installed.

With the likes of Oracle 10g, that is all that is necessary. For MySQL, you additionally have to tell the MySQL server that the wacs account is allowed to access the database from that location, so you would need to do the following steps on the server to allow that to happen:

nemesis% mysql -u root -p
Password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 80
Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or \h for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> CREATE USER 'wacs'@'fawn.mydomain.info'
    -> IDENTIFIED BY 'wacs';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> CREATE USER 'wacs'@'fawn'
    -> IDENTIFIED BY 'wacs';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> COMMIT;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> QUIT;
Bye
nemesis% 

You will also need to make sure that the actual hostname, eg nemesis in our examples, is used in the wacs.cfg file rather than localhost. While localhost will work fine on nemesis itself, fawn won't work with that.